System Quotes
5175 System quotes by 3168 unique authors
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Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
— Bill Mollison
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The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.
— Peer Steinbruck
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Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot…
— Guido von List
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Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that--for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty--is demonstrably untrue?
— Charles Templeton
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Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.
— Melanie Fiona
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People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
— Alfred Korzybski
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We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a…
— Henry Ford
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We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not…
— R. D. Laing
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To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
— Thomas Browne
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The PSP will not be able to display anything that you cannot do on a current system.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status…
— Ludwig von Mises
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System,…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social…
— Earl Browder
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all…
— Joni Mitchell
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found
— Rinus Michels
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The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into…
— Daniel Hannan
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We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no…
— Michael Behe
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If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts…
— Myron Tribus
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Treating ourselves like appliances that can be unplugged and plugged in again at will or cars that stop and start with the twist of a…
— William Bridges
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A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,…
— Matthew Yglesias
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We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
— Paul Goldberger
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